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Earlier this year in February, after eleven years of waiting and hoping, fans of the seminal Marvel vs. Capcom 2 were delighted by the release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The game saw a return to what fans of the series loved: fast-paced tag-team matches, eye-popping graphics and over-the-top action, punctuated by ludicrous hyper-combos which delivered a flurry of hits to opponents. However, the release wasn’t without its problems,...

Ten years ago, Halo: Combat Evolved was the toast of college dorm rooms all over North America. Not only would gamers punish themselves by trying to best Bungie's campaign on every difficulty setting, but if you had the cables and a little bit of brains you could link up a few Xbox consoles and voilà, LAN party! Back in 2001, Halo was one of the finest games available and...

Swear To Me When Batman: Arkham Asylum first released in the summer of 2009, it had a lot going against it. Rocksteady was a largely unproven developer, and there was a long legacy of terrible games based on comic properties, with Batman himself being one of the more visible examples. The naysayers and doubters—myself among them—were all proven tremendously wrong from start to finish, as the game...

As a gamer with a strong sense of nostalgia for my misspent youth in basements clinging to various console controllers, I’ll always have a soft spot for side-scrolling platformers. There’s something about the graphical simplicity and hair-pulling difficulty of the genre that is endlessly appealing to me. This is what most videogames were for years, and while I’m just as excited to dive into technical marvels like Uncharted 3...

Having grown up a fan of the original Burgertime game for NES, I was understandably excited earlier when it was announced that a newly updated, HD graphics version of the game would be released later in the year. When it finally was available for purchase online, I jumped at the opportunity, excited to play an updated version of what my inner child remembers and considers a classic. Unfortunately, Burgertime:...

Did you play Kingdom Hearts? Did you cringe openly when you realized that it was a Final Fantasy-style RPG with platforming elements, set in various Disney worlds, with Donald and Goofy as your party members? Did you find yourself surprised when it actually did the interaction with the movies well, and felt enjoyable? That was how I felt, and I can't help but...

King of Fighters is a household name when it comes to fighting games. It'd have to be, if this is the thirteenth one. While I'm not a fighting game grognard or whatever the term is, I do know what I enjoy in fighting games – and as they go, this game will serve as your old-school beat-em-up fun. The...

A Surprising Stocking Stuffer Tintin may not be the most widely-recognized comic book character to North American readers, but in Europe, the intrepid reporter has been a fixture of comic culture since 1929. Now, with the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson CG animated feature finally crossing the Atlantic, a new generation of kids have the opportunity to discover the sense of timeless adventure that Herge brought to Tintin,...

Variety is generally a good thing in games. Despite popular jokes about MMOS, people generally don't enjoy doing the same thing over and over again. However, there are also cases where you have a variety of things to do – and none of them, except one, are actually fun. Air Conflicts: Secret Wars is such a case. The game...

When GoldenEye 64 came out in 1997, it was amazing for its time, but I have yet to see another game show its age the way that classic game does. In today's world of modern first-person action games, the classic Nintendo 64 console just doesn't hold up. Sure, we all remember sitting in a basement as teenagers taking on three other friends in a match of “License to Kill,”...

Yet Another Nostalgic Must-Own Bluepoint Games may not be doing the sexiest job in the games industry, but the amount of work they’re getting probably ensures that their job security is certain for a few years. This time they’ve stepped away from their cozy niche with Sony into an HD port of Konami titles; in this case, the flagship Metal Gear series. As you might expect...

The Monster Series Returns Within the genre of RPGs, it’s understood by fans that these games will normally take tens of hours to complete, with 30 as the approximate average and 60 for those that want to do a little more exploration, and then, for most, the apotheosis is 100 or so hours if you really want to see every damn thing the game offers. The...

Join The Masochistic Side From Software is back with the spiritual successor to one of the hardest games to hit the scene in years. Demons Soul’s made a splash both in Japan and in the West through sheer word of mouth and glowing reviews from the media. Two years later, Dark Souls is here, and it brings with it the same sense of accomplishment, excitement, brutality—and...

If you have ever wanted to jump behind the wheel of an expensive car, drive cross-country, and race against the best drivers in the world for a shot at millions, then on paper Need for Speed: The Run sounds like the perfect game for you. Regrettably, this is not the case. The game feels horribly inconsistent, and the overall racing experience suffers from it. There are some great set-piece...

Call of Duty (CoD) is back with another addition to Activision's yearly action franchise, and this time not only is it personal, but also global. Lock and load for for a globetrotting adventure of scripted action at it's finest. Fight through the streets of Paris, the London Tube system, villages of Sierra Leone and even the cramped quarters of a Russian submarine as it threatens to wipe the entire...

F1 2011 is the latest racing simulation from Codemasters and the follow up to last year's F1 2010. This year's edition has 12 teams, 24 drivers, and 19 tracks, all featured in the real-world F1 circuit. This year, Codemasters has put the emphasis on you, the driver; it's just a shame that I found being an F1 driver to be one of the dullest professions in sports. All I...

War Of The Mutants X-Men: Destiny was a bit of a surprise when it was first announced. There hadn’t been a game based on the popular mutant team in years. The developer, Silicon Knights, had fared poorly with their previous title, the infamous Too Human, an Xbox 360 exclusive that met with mixed critical and worse commercial reception. So when it came out that the small Canadian...